How reliable is BMI as an indicator of body fatness? ... Other methods to measure body fatness include skinfold thickness measurements (with calipers), underwater weighing, bioelectrical impedance, dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA), and isotope dilution. However, these methods are not always readily available,
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RESULTS: The accuracy of BMI varies according to the degree of body fatness. Among relatively fat children, BMI is a good indicator of excess adiposity, but differences in the BMIs of relatively thin children can be largely due to fat-free mass.
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For every calorie expended during HIIT, there was a nine fold loss of subcutaneous body fat, as compared to the ET group. ... Trembblay A, Simoneau JA, Bouchard C. (1994). Impact of Exercise Intensity on Body Fatness and Skeletal Muscle Metablism, Metabolism. 43(7): 814-818.
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Is there a relationship between body fatness during childhood and adolescence and breast cancer later in life? ... Body Fatness During Childhood and Adolescence and Incidence of Breast Cancer in Premenopausal Women: A Prospective Cohort Study...
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CONCLUSIONS: A robust equation for estimation of FFM in New Zealand European, Maori and Pacific Island children in the 5-14 y age range that is more suitable than BMI for the determination of body fatness in field studies has been developed.
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The body mass index (BMI) is probably the best way to use height and weight to assess fatness. The BMI can provide guidelines for body fatness, but is not a true measure of body fatness. Thus, it should not be used to assess performance.
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The correlations between the percentage of body fat and the indices, W/Hz, W/HP, ... index and body fatness should be as high as possible (Billewicz et al. ...
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When it comes to being short of breath during exercise, how fat is distributed on the body is a more significant factor than overall body fatness or lung function, say researchers at the Institut ... The oxygen cost was markedly increased in some but not all of the women, even when their overall body fat was similar.
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Be as lean as possible within the normal range1 of body weight ... Median adult body mass index (BMI) to be between 21 and 23, depending on the normal range for different populations2 The proportion of the population that is overweight or obese to be no more than ... Home » About the Report » Recommendations » Body Fatness...
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Body mass index (BMI) during adulthood is inversely related to the incidence of premenopausal breast cancer, but the role of body fatness earlier in life is less clear. We examined prospectively the relation between body fatness during childhood and adolescence and the incidence of breast cancer in premenopausal women.
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